Chelsea march into history

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FORMING a guard of honour to applaud Chelsea’s champions on to the Old Trafford pitch was supposed to be the ultimate indignity in a season of depressing underachievement for Manchester United, but further humiliation was to follow last night as they were outfought, out-thought and, in the end, comprehensively outclassed in a defeat that may have had Sir Alex Ferguson wondering if he will ever claim victory over José Mourinho.

This was Ferguson’s sixth meeting with Mourinho since United were drawn against FC Porto in the last 16 of the European Cup last season and the sixth time that the